Because it shows many people are playing it. That in itself may be of interest to people who are considering purchasing the game. Also it let’s the devs know there is a market potentially interested in DLC or sequels. If the news was that player counts dropped to a very small number, neither of those things are likely to happen

To be fair, this happens with the release of every soulslike

I’m glad it’s going easy for you. Unfortunately after 3 hours of trying I still haven’t gotten mint cinnamon installed yet. Bitlocker has been a pain to disable. I’m determined to get it working though, I’m really tired of microsoft

Who wants to pay premium for prices?

https://youtu.be/hJ9yBgTp9UQ?si=HdQe-Yr5dGItqCuG

Reminds me of The Office when Michael Scott implies he brushes his teeth faster than a guy in a wheel chair lol

I think there is a bigger market for them now though. What was the most popular video game in the 90s and how many copies sold vs the biggest games now? And now with steam and other sevices you don’t even have to manufacture as many discs. Even freemium mobile games are making billions in revenue.

Idk what you mean by mobile elements aren’t being loaded. Does the title of the article not count? I can see it behind the paywall banner

I’ve been on sites that track how many articles I’ve read and wait to hit me with the pay wall after some amount

Art Style > Graphics. Kingdom Hearts (2002) looks wildly better GTA: San Andreas (2004) and Fallout 3 (2008).

Found the series when 3 released. Like many people I thought fallout would he awesome with coop multi-player. 76 is not the experience myself or I’m guessing most people had in mind. I’m not saying there is anything inherently wrong with the game. Just not what I was looking for when thinking “multi-player fallout”.

I use to work at a grocery store and for every food item that was stolen, dozens more of the same product was thrown out for being past expiration. Like many companies they want the shelves to be full at all times, which means they over produce and order product. Nothing was recycled or donated, just straight into the trash. If I ever saw anyone stealing while I was working, I just saw it as less work I has to do with taking count and throwing out food later. Plus someone actually got to eat it!

My big issue with paying for an ad free experience is that there are ads on videos of stolen content, and that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. I have this issue with SoundCloud as well. Random people will upload mixtapes of other artists that were originally released for free, but SoundCloud will run ads over it. It’s obvious the creators aren’t getting paid. I don’t understand how that’s even legal. Even if you argue that the service of using the website shouldn’t be completely free, they are profiting off of stolen content.

Just curious on what you think the benefit of pre-ordering a factorio dlc would be instead of buying after release?

TIL Liquid Death is water lol. I always assumed it was one of those coffee/energy drink hybrids from the name and price.

Its very similar to ark survival and the open world Conan game. There’s love you can find in hidden diaries and there are goals that involve upgrading your base and killing bosses. What makes it stand out to the others is that it is basically Pokémon. If you’re into the previously mentioned games, I think it’s great

I don’t use TikTok but wasn’t it heavily criticized for censoring pro-Hong Kong content?

That’s like saying Twitter isn’t social media because its a microblog. Lemmy is definitely social media. We have profiles, can add each other as friends, send private messages, etc. It’s not structured the same as most other social media websites, but it is social media